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“RIP best drink ever. You will be missed.”
—Anonymous comment on WSJ Health Blog : MillerCoors Drops Caffeine From Sparks Drinks
Boing, erection time! I saw this Arby’s ad personally a couple of weekends ago, on ABC Family channel of all places — it aired during a Harry Potter movie.
“Direct-to-consumer promotion was the single worst decision for the industry”
—A Swiss drug executive, discussing America’s love of drug commercials. The Senate has held hearings questioning the practice, hopefully the new Congress will apply some standards.
Even bankrupt megastores have some standards.
(via Failblog)
Walmart Employee Trampled To Death In Black Friday Stampede
Congrats, jerk ass Walmart shoppers, you already killed someone:
A Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York died after being trampled by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store early Friday morning, turning the annual rite of post-Thanksgiving bargain hunting into a frenzy.
The 34-year-old employee, who was not identified, was knocked down by a crowd that broke down the doors of the Wal-Mart at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y., and surged into the store. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital at 6 a.m.
Read the full story at the New York Tiimes.
(Photo: Rwill)
“In November and December of 2007, consumers accumulated $12.8 billion in new debt, or 16% of the total debt accumulated that year.”
The American Family Association is selling this gigantic illuminated cross to display on your doorstep, or an ethnic stranger’s yard.
Credit Card Minimum Payment Tricks Brain Into Paying Less Per Month
From ScienceBlogs: research has shown that “the mere presence of a minimum payment is enough to reduce the actual amount many people choose to pay on their bills.” The concept is called “anchoring,” “in which arbitrary and irrelevant numbers bias people’s judgments.” Although your brain will fight you on this, you should do everything in your power to ignore minimum payment amounts and instead figure your monthly payment according to your real budget, opting for the maximum value possible.
The Frontal Cortex: Anchoring and Credit Cards
(Photo: Gaetan Lee)
